For those who grew up in the era, the toys were quite unique. Even the dolls of the day captured the counterculture vibes and changing culture of the Seventies.

We went flipping through some vintage Sears Wishbooks and J.C. Penney catalogs for dolls you would only find in the decade of Ponch and the Fonz. Do you remember any of these? Were you lucky enough to own them?

1. Flip Wilson

Laugh-In and The Flip Wilson Show had wide demographics, apparently, including toddlers. Li'l fans of those cutting-edge comedies could cuddle up with Flip… or flip Flip over to find his alter ego Geraldine Jones. The talking doll would proclaim, "The devil made me buy this dress!" It's for kids!

2. Rock Flowers

The Rock Flowers were a "real" girl group that released two albums in the early 1970s. Mattel made a line of dolls for the act, blurring the line between Barbie and the Archies, which came with colored 45 r.p.m. records. The girls could stand on the records as they spun on your turntable, playing tracks like "Your Music N' My Music" and "Mixin' Matchin' Day." The commercial for the "outta sight" dolls featured Casey Kasem and Geri "Fake Jan" Reischl from The Brady Bunch Hour.

3. Grampa

Joyce Miller created the "Gramma" doll, which became a massive fad in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The stuffed old woman even spun-off into a line of children's furniture, anthropomorphic chairs that allowed kids to sit in "Gramma's lap." Naturally, Gramma needed a Grampa, and here he is.

4. Hugo, Man of a Thousand Faces

Ventriloquism was all the rage with the youth of the 1970s. This puppet, a sort of Mr. Potato Head–meets–Witness Protection, could change his appearance with a variety of stick-on facial hair, including thick mutton chops.

8. J.J. Armes

What if we told you there was a man with two hooks for hands named J.J. Armes? The moniker seems a little too on the nose, but indeed Jay J. Armes is real person. Armes was 11 years old when he mangled his hands playing with railroad torpedoes. Doctors amputated his badly damaged extremities. After appearing as a sniper in "Hookman," a memorable episode of Hawaii Five-O, Armes began to develop his own TV series with CBS. In real life, Armes had his own detective agency, and a line of dolls, complete with mobile investigation van. Read more about this fascinating minor celebrity of the 1970s.

9. J.J. the "Dyn-O-Mite" Talking Doll

10. Talking Redd Foxx

Speaking of sitcom actors with talking dolls, the star of Sanford & Son and comedian had his own plush miniature. When you pulled the string in his back, he would proclaim, "Your daddy sat on me!" That's not weird.

11. The Sunshine Family

The Sunshine Family were the most 1970s toys of the 1970s. Crunchy hippies Steve, Stephie and Sweets shunned the plastic materialism of Barbie. Instead, they wore turtlenecks and sandals, and sold handmade crafts from the back of their truck. They'd fit right in in modern-day Portland.